Unable to e-mail 'Scanned Text'

[MapleE.]

Hi:
I am NOT able to e-mail a scanned text which is newspaper article.

Upon e-mailing a scanned text, .... it says, 'harmful to computer or some
similar warning' popping up, then not able to e-mail this, useful newspaper
article scanned by printer.

My question is,
How to e-mail scanned newspaper article?

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[Bob I]

Did you save this to a file first?

 

[MapleE.]

Thanks for the quick response.

I saved this, scanned newspaper article in 'My Picture' and 'My document,'
from there I tried to e-mail, but Not e-mail this, scanned article.

How to e-mail this, Scanned Newspaper Article?'

Thanks,

 

[Bob I]

Is it a tif, jpg? Open Outlook and then Insert the file you want to
send. You are using Outlook, right? What version? Have you checked the
Security options?

 

[Erwin Moller]

MapleE. schreef:

Hi:
I am NOT able to e-mail a scanned text which is newspaper article.

Upon e-mailing a scanned text, .... it says, 'harmful to computer or some
similar warning' popping up, then not able to e-mail this, useful newspaper
article scanned by printer.

My question is,
How to e-mail scanned newspaper article?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Hi,

Scanned text is a picture (in whatever format).
Possibly you did OCR and then you get real text.

In both cases: If you cannot email that (the plain text or the image)
your emailprogram is broken.
Solution: get a working emailclient.

Maybe Thunderbird?
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Regards,
Erwin Moller


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[MapleE.]

Thanks again.

I'm using Outlook Express 6 with XP.

How to save 'file' after scanned newspaper-article which I want to e-mail?

Thanks,

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Hi:
I am NOT able to e-mail a scanned text which is newspaper article.

Upon e-mailing a scanned text, .... it says, 'harmful to computer or some
similar warning' popping up, then not able to e-mail this, useful
newspaper article scanned by printer.

My question is,
How to e-mail scanned newspaper article?

Thanks for your help in advance.

What is the size of the scanned image? If you Right Click and Send To -
E-mail recipient, what happens?

Copy and paste any error message in here.

 

[MapleE.]

Thanks for the help.

I scanned as 'TIF,' but when I tried to e-mail, it's still 'TIF,' not become
'JPF.' That's causing this problem?

File is only one small piece of article, ... Size: 7.31 MB.

Warning message is;
Windows found that this file is potentially harmful.
To help protect your computer, Windows has blocked access to this file.

Thanks for any clue on this, above.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks for the quick response.

I saved this, scanned newspaper article in 'My Picture' and 'My document,'
from there I tried to e-mail, but Not e-mail this, scanned article.

How to e-mail this, Scanned Newspaper Article?'

What kind of file did you save it as? What is its extension?

 

[Jim]

Thanks for the help.

I scanned as 'TIF,' but when I tried to e-mail, it's still 'TIF,' not
become 'JPF.' That's causing this problem?

File is only one small piece of article, ... Size: 7.31 MB.

Warning message is;
Windows found that this file is potentially harmful.
To help protect your computer, Windows has blocked access to this file.

Thanks for any clue on this, above.

That file (7.31 MB!) is way to big. You will never be able to send such a
large file through the internet. A maximum file size should be 150KB.
However, as others have said, you should first convert it to a text file
with OCR software. A text file is much easier to send via email.
Jim

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Re-scan it as a .txt file. If you can, save it to PDF format.

 

[3c273]

That file (7.31 MB!) is way to big. You will never be able to send such a
large file through the internet. A maximum file size should be 150KB. ----snip----
Jim

Nonsense!
GMail supports attachments up to 20 MB
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8770
Yahoo supports attachments up to 10 MB
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070425200449AAMKUBK
and Hotmail support attachments up to 10 MB but I cant find a link.
Louis

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

That file (7.31 MB!) is way to big. You will never be able to send such a
large file through the internet. A maximum file size should be 150KB.

Whether it's too big or not depends on his ISP (or whoever provides
his E-mail service). The ISP is what puts a maximum size on the size
of a message sent. It's true that 7.31MB will exceed the maximum
imposed by many ISPs, but not necessarily all. I certainly wouldn't
say "You will *never* be able to send..."

And by the way, 150KB is *way* lower than the maximum imposed by most
ISPs. Personally I have often sent files larger than that.

Moreover, if his problem is that the file size exceeds the maximum
imposed by the ISP, the message he would get would certainly *not* be
"Windows found that this file is potentially harmful."

 

[MapleE.]

Thanks all for the responses.

Finally, it's done.

First, saved as TIF, and then JPEG. Successfully, I did e-mail.

Thanks all,

 

[Jim]

Nonsense!
GMail supports attachments up to 20 MB
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8770
Yahoo supports attachments up to 10 MB
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070425200449AAMKUBK
and Hotmail support attachments up to 10 MB but I cant find a link.
Louis

Well, just try downloading a thing that big in mail. It is not that the
size is impossible, it is that most people are not willing to wait that long
for something that big.
Jim

 

[smlunatick]

Thanks all for the responses.

Finally, it's done.

First, saved as TIF, and then JPEG.  Successfully, I did e-mail.

Thanks all,

This is a security setting in Outlook Express set by Default. The
security setting blocks most attachments.

Under the Tools -> Options setting, in the Security tab, remove the
check in "Do not allow attachments to be save or opened...."

However, after you changed this, you must be running up to date and
current antivirus software. Also, only open attachments that you
expect from known people.

 

[Michael Scott]

It is not that the size is impossible, it is that most people are not
willing to wait that long for something that big.

That's not what she said.

 

[M.I.5¾]

How about asking this in a group for whatever mail app you are using?

Ask elsewhere

Or ask in a general newsgroup.

As this is such a newsgroup a better idea is to just ignore our resident
****wit.